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Update: Still single, still here. Loving life and feeling grateful. 53 years old, but feel like I am 25. Still writing about dating and other details about my life and my surroundings. Welcome, browse around, stay awhile and share your thoughts! Blessings to you on your journey! 🙂 ♥♥♥

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I am a newly single, never married, 46 year woman, no kids, no pets, free as a bird. I am eager to live a full life. I am trying to rebuild life after a breakup with someone that I thought was “The One”. Will take classes and chances, will take tumbles and get up, and register it all here for good or bad, but always for a good laugh!!

Break ups, separations, divorces are not easy! All of a sudden you lose companionship, loved ones, friends, pets, houses, security and most of all you lose your sense of self.

Life as you knew it is is over! Now what?

The worst the pain and hardship the better the opportunity. This is great opportunity for learning and self discovery. You have a chance to reinvent yourself and start over again. The same goes for job loss, illness and any other difficulty or tragedy in life.

So I plan to learn the most that I can. I plan on seizing the moment and grab opportunity by the hair and not let it go.

In March 2012 I start writing because I needed to get thoughts out of my head.

Now after a couple of months I continue to write because to me is like breathing, something I need to survive.

I write to hopefully inspire, but above all to be inspired!!

Please share with me your thoughts, about anything. We never know where it will lead.

I wanted to thank you for following my site! I hope it will be a worthy endeavor! I write to lift up everyone that comes close to me filling them with a piece of the joy that the lord gives to me each day! I will be visiting you also!

I wish you nothing but bliss as you begin your new life as a divorced woman. While marriage might be wonderful with the right person, I think you will find that once you adjust, there are quite a few advantages to be single as well. Good luck in the future. 🙂

Thanks for following my blog. I found myself in much the same situation as you about a year and a half ago and I’m having a wonderful time! I wish you all the very best in your journey of re-discovery and I look foward to following your blog.

Your blog is fun and entertaining. The pictures are beautiful! I also love the page design – did you do it yourself.
You do look like you are having fun – I am happy for you! and I am on that road – one day at a time! Thank you for the kind words!

I totally can relate to “life as I knew it and than what?” Writing is definitely healing and it’s been my saving grace. I too write about navigating through life the best way we can. It’s never easy but we do need the pain for better opportunity. Thank you for the recent follow. I’ll be following along too!

I agree, and now that some time has passed, I accept it as a blessing and I pray to see the signs above! By the way, I enjoy your painting, they are so serene and such a calming effect. Maybe because of them I took a nap!! Just kidding! 🙂

Thank you so much for following my blog. I think many good things lie in wait for you as you begin this new chapter in your life. May you walk from strength to strength. I will definitely be reading more of your posts.

Thank you for following my blog! I wish you much peace and joy as you go about “reinventing” yourself after your loss. Blogging is a wonderful community of kindred spirits, so you’ve chosen your avenue well!

Hello, I have nominated you for the beautiful blogger award. For more on how to accept this award please go to http://www.boomiebol.wordpress.com. Thank you and keep up the great work.
Much Love
Boomie Bol

Very pleased to meet you, free spirit! I can tell by what I have poked around at, that despite the bad stuff, you can find the funny side of life. This is my motto as well and I am glad that you came to visit my blog!

I am from Brasil but have been living in the US for a long time. I just recently discovered blogging. It has been my therapy and medicine! Eu falo Portugues, minha familia toda mora no Brasil e eu vou no Brasil 2 vezes for ano visita-los. Nice meeting you!! 🙂

Maybe it’s not so much reinventing yourself as rediscovering your essence — or even self-discovery and renewal. It’s all too easy to lose yourself in another person or situation, and then feel lost when that’s gone.

At least that’s where I was when I began keeping a journal more than four decades ago while living Upstate, only to find along the way that we really are blessed with so much more than we typically acknowledge. You seem to be finding that, too, with Blessed With a Star. … Keep it up! There are more surprises than you’d ever anticipate.

As you’ve already seen, I’m also having a lot of fun revisiting some of my nuggets from across the years and posting them on my own blog, Jnana’s Red Barn. Even more delightful is the interaction now with others who recognize similar experiences in their own journeys. Seems there are kindred spirits everywhere.

Thank you very much for your comment! You are so right! This has been a great process of learning. And I know that I have only started taking baby steps, there is so much to discover.
The interaction with others has been amazing (I can already count some as good friends) and the majority positive, of course there will always be people that will have problems with what I write, as I just found out, but at any rate, I am writing from a place of honesty in my heart.
So, thank you so much for your comment and I plan on visiting your barn often. 🙂

Thanks for liking my recent post and my best wishes to you on your new journey. Interestingly the tune on my album called Rosebud Blooming (you can hear it via my link on the post and visiting the album) is about a woman who has become separated and I tried to capture the melancholy and irony of it because really I believe she was then just starting to bloom. Bon voyage on your new life and may you bloom from now on too..

I know all about losing a loved one and it takes a lot of time to forget and to come to terms with life. I also know about breaking up, I left someone a few months ago. it was a bad relationship but even so a lot of thihgs and habits change.
I hope you will get over it soon (I hope I do too)
Love, Steph

Thank you so much for the kind words! At times it seems I am all better and then there are dark days, where I just try to breath, pray and wait it out! Breaking up is hard no matter what, in my case all seemed perfect, so I am still at a loss wondering what went wrong. I got to stop asking that!!! Much love to you too! Ana

Thank you for following my blog! I am so new to blogging and finding my way around here, I had to read directions so I could write a note to you. I’ve read a few of your posts, and I’m hooked. As a fellow Aries, I can relate to what you are writing, and can’t wait to read your archives. You are the first person I’ve followed, and now that I know how to do that, I will find more! … As a side note, my husband is six years my junior, and I’ve dated ten years younger with no qualms. I never had the chance to go beyond ten years.

Good luck with blogging! I am fairly new too so I don’t know all the ins and outs yet, but fell in love with it! I am glad to be the first! 🙂 And very happy to meet a fellow impulsive and hard headed Aries! LOL I went beyond 10 years, it was very fun as long as you don’t fall in love!

Hi, this really inspires me! I always think it’s the one, and they’re thinking I’m the one they’re passing time with! It’s hard to get it all, not something you could truly know as a young man! Thank you for your bravery and courage! Thank you as well for the follow!

Thank you so much!
I like Cat Stevens, but had never heard that song before. It is great!
The name of my blog has to do with being told by a fortune teller when I was 17 that he was not going to even bother giving me a reading because I had a star on my forehead and therefore whatever I wanted was mine to receive.
Well it stuck with me and I go through life knowing that I am blessed and behaving as such. (Every single person on this earth is blessed, but most people just don’t acknowledge).
Thank you for the blessing and for the song!! 🙂

How brave and wonderful you are to be baring your soul and sharing this journey. I know it will help so many people besides you. And you write beautifully! Keep going. Wishing for you a wonderful soul mate, to share that love and adventure with you. Bless xx

Thank you for your kind words! If I can help one person than I will already feel blessed! Thank you for the well wishes and many blessings to you! Unfortunately I cannot visit too often, every time I stop by my sweet tooth goes on overdrive!! 🙂

Thank you for following. Like you, I want to be inspired and to inspire as well. You surely made the right decision to write about your thoughts, your feelings, and your experiences because revealing yourself can be so liberating and at the same time, people can relate to you and people will be inspired to reveal themselves because it is in this revelation that they will be free..

Hi: I read your “about me” section. Being as good as you are you will find your “Right” person soon. So, go ahead continue to blog your thoughts, but also strive for the right relationships and the wholeseomeness of life.
If you need any views on the larger aspects of life feel free to visit my blog http://WWW.Sipractce.wordpress.com
and post ant questions or comments.
Best wishes
Sipractce.

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog and liking a post. Boy can I relate to the relationship issues. Mine was a short marriage and divorce but it hit me hard. Took a couple of years to finally get over it. Writing is a good way to work through things. Keep it up.

Hi there
Really enjoyed your post and wish you all the best for the future. Sounds like you have the right attitude to make lemonade from the lemons life handed you.
Thanks for stopping by soulsnet.com. Perhaps we can inspire each other. Corinne

Thanks for ‘liking” one of my blog posts. I’ve been married for 30 years but it’s hardly been without challenges. After being together for decades and “suddenly” becoming an interfaith marriage (she’s Jewish and I’m Christian, but we started out as atheists), it’s become a whole new adventure.

I haven’t read your blog content yet, but I hope and pray that the pain is easing and the adventure is beginning for you.

I know about writing. If I didn’t write every day, I’d probably explode. I wear my heart not on my sleeve, but on my blog.

Hi James
30 years!! Congratulations! I can only imagine the conflicts generated in an interfaith marriage. Glad that you see it as an adventure, that is a great outlook to have! I know what you mean about writing! Many Blessings to you and I will stop by often to see what you are up to you! 🙂

Thank you for visiting my blog, I have only read a few things here but so far I love it. I was divorced after 15 years and raised 3 boys alone after that. But life does go on I re-married many years later we now have 6 kids between us. Yes we’re poor LOL. But for all the right reason…shoes, band camp, college, weddings & Grandbabies.
Please come by to visit anytime, you’re always welcome.

I’m looking forward to reading more of your posts! Journaling and sharing with others are very healthy ways to deal with the difficulties we face in life. Reading your “about me”, you have already inspired me with your sunny spirit. Blessings!

that is pretty much what happened to me although there were children involved, i ended up writing my life in books. big accomplishment! now i write when i can here as i am rebuilding my career…..keep up the great work and send a message anytime

I came here to thank you for visiting my blog (gnostic bent) and then started reading some of your inspirational work. I know things can get dark and, believe me, no one can get darker and more depressed than me sometimes. Your resolve and your desire to find something positive in your life are commendable, and I am confident you will find that special someone. Keep your chin up and hit me back if you ever need a fellow human to listen. I am more than happy to help 🙂

Thank you so much for stopping by and offering me your years/eyes 🙂 sometimes it seems there are not enough humans on this earth to listen to my sorrows – lol, but I am quick to snap out of it and see the beauty in the world.
and the same goes to you, Mr. Sometimes Dark and Depressed. I am here for you if you need! 🙂

I am honoured to nominate you for the One Lovely Blog Award! Please pick-up your award at http://parasharstales.wordpress.com/. Copy and Paste the Award to your blog and follow the rules of acceptance. I am very aware that some people do not wish to participate in Awards, and I completely respect that… no strings! But in any case, Congratulations, you have a Lovely Blog

Thanks for visiting my neck of the woods! So glad you did ‘cuz now I had the opportunity to come to your blog, which I really like. There are so many good posts that I am definitely going to take the time to read. Yes – writing is sooooo good for the soul and a great way to sort out our thoughts and emotions. I am not Brazilian, but am a fellow South American. I came to US from Colombia when I was five, so I don’t have much history there, but do have a pretty crazy Colombian familia!

Thank you so much for visiting me and enjoying my writing. Writing has been my salvation and it has blessed me with friends and inspiration.
I hope you have a chance to visit and experience your Colombian culture.
I came to the US when I was 17 and my whole family is still in Brazil so I am there whenever I can.
I have to go back to your blog and read more about your crazy busy life!
Many blessings to you! 🙂

Thank you! I have read parts of your blog, you have been going through a lot and is such an inspiration to be grateful for all we have today and keep going no matter what! A day full of blessings to you too! 🙂

Love how honest you are! I feel your same feelings. I actually started my blog as a way of venting. I was always the person who kept her feelings stuffed inside. I just experienced the worst emotional roller coaster relationship ever and really needed a place to put my thoughts. We have something in common 🙂

We do have something in common!! I am glad that you found a place for your thoughts like I did! I need to go to your blog and find out more!
Best of luck to you in getting over and emerging better on the other side! Many blessings! 🙂

Thanks for liking our blog. Mom is single but she has us. We try to provide her with laughter, love and furry moments. Still, sometimes we know she gets lonely. However, she’s keeping active and stays in touch with dear human friends. We’ve made lots of new friends through our blog and we share those friends with her. We think you are a very sensitive, caring human and we like that. Keep on growing!

Lots of love and blessings for your path of self-discovery and reinventing your life! I agree, the big changes in life are always a chance for transormation and growth – eventhough it does not always look like it to us at the first view. 🙂

Thank you for stopping by and liking my blog as well as some of my posts! It is deeply appreciated.

Just wanted to let you know that I took this chance to share your blog with the people that follow me by nominating you for The Very Inspiring Blogger Award. That, and the fact that I do find your blog inspiring on a regular basis. Please feel free to participate or not.Thank you for sharing your thoughts.http://www.magnoliabeginnings.org

As I read your blog and posts, you have brought tears to my eyes and it was hard to not cry. i have experienced the pain you have been through and I NEVER thought I could make through another day. It is one of the most challenging times of our lives. i wish you nothing but the best for your future ahead. There are so many people that share your pain and thank you for opening your heart to the world! xo
Éva ❤

It is my pleasure! Sometimes the smallest things in life matter the most. I am happy to hear that you are getting better. It is step by step, day by day that is for sure and you will be stronger for it. This I know from experience. Keep your head held high and your heart soft. I was told this by someone a long time ago. Don’t let your heart get bitter by this experience.
Sincerely,
Éva

Hi Eva.I call my heart the Energizer Bunny – it takes a licking and it keeps on ticking. I will never give up on love and finding a life partner. People disappoint me but there is a lot lessons in that. Thank you my new friend! Blessings! 🙂

I hear you on that! Good for you! It took me some time to come around after my heartaches in the past. As I get older and go through life, I look back and realize they were all lessons that I had to learn whether I liked it or not. My old friend had a saying: People come into our lives for a reason, a season or a lifetime! I guess some were seasonal 🙂 You’re welcome my new friend and all the blessings right back at you!
Éva

People come into our lives for a reason, a season or a lifetime – that is very true and I am still trying to figure out the reason and lessons in my relationship with Ex. I want to make sure that I learn all there is to learn so I don’t have to learn any lessons twice!
🙂

The answer will come! It always comes later when you have healed, and moved on. The picture is always clearer looking in than being in the situation. I have unfortunately had to learn the hard way by repeating things many times before It dawned on me that my choices haven’t changed so how can my results? I liked the bad boys and they always broke my heart. Thats ok though, lesson finally learned 🙂

just want to thank you for all your recent likes on my Not in India blog and also to thank you for bringing me here to your very lovely blog. Wish you great love in the future….all things come at the right time and in the right way for our Higher Good, if we are able to experience things with acceptance, gratitude and freedom from fear. I can tell you this from personal experience. I waited 65 years to finally meet the right person. For now, just enjoy every single moment of your new found freedom. Nd know that it is a great blessing. It is a beautiful world with so much wonder and beauty to be found at every new turn in the road. If you enjoy travel and and seeing new things, you might enjoy checking out my India Journal blog (I will be back once again next week) where there is much to explore and enjoy as well. http://janesindiajournals.wordpress.com
much love light and JOY to you

Hi Jane.
You are very correct and I guess the challenge for me is acceptance. But I do believe in Divine Timing, so I try to be patient and not rush things.
I am happy that you have found the right person! Great things come to those who wait!!
I do love to travel and India will definitely be a destination in my future!
I will go back often to your blog and read up.
Blessings! 🙂

thank you for stopping by my blog, I liked yours a lot too, it is beautifully written! If you ever have issues with reverse culture shock or re-adaptation, being both Brazilian and American, you are always warmly welcome to my blog about the topic! May I ask you how you found me?

Thank you for the compliment! I don’t have any issues at this point but I plan on visiting your blog often and learning more! I am not even sure how I stumbled upon your blog. If I figure it out I will let you know. Blessings! 🙂

I believe in personal growth and living life. I also believe (rightly or wrongly so) in that perfect relationship. I encourage friends not to settle but wait for the right person – sometimes easier said than done! Hey, this will probably be my next post! Good luck!

I started writing because I needed to get thoughts out of my head. and I continue to write, because to me is like breathing, something I need to survive… This is exactly how I feel. EXACTLY, how I feel about writing.!

My divorce was final in June and it gave me a great sense of freedom. It was not the right place for me and I know in my heart that something better awaits. Had I not left that relationship, I never would have started my blog and rekindled my love of writing. It’s nice to find other people here that feel the same. Glad to have found you!

All happens for a reason and it is always for our betterment! This blog has been a lifesaver for me! I am glad that we found each others! 🙂 Much better things awaits for us when we are ready to receive it! Many blessings! 🙂

Wishing you all the best in discovery !! I left my very lucrative career after 16 years to find myself and write. With writing and just trying to figure out how to set my page up and launch a blog has been a challenge. I was attacked and stabbed 21 times in 1991 and one was through my scull which has always made it very difficult to track.
I have read over and over the details on wordpress for set up and it seems to be my greatest challenge.. I think it’s time to just pay someone to help. Best of luck and I look forward to following your blog.
Becki

Wow! You are inspiring . Starting writing & sharing when life gave you a setback. I raised funds for special needs kids thro singing when I had some really hard times. And know how uplifting that was… For myself And others. Thank you for sharing your life for us to learn from & big thanks for stopping by.. Charu

Thank you for the kind words and compliment! So great what you did for the special needs kids! There is nothing better than giving back when we are so blessed!
Your blog is also great and I plan on stopping by often!
Many blessings! 🙂

Thank you for stopping by and liking my posts. The pain of losing someone you thought was the one is like a knife cutting through your soul. Writing hopefully will ease some of the pain. I commend you on wanting to share and I shall look forward to reading some of your other pieces. I do love your name by the way Star on the Forehead 🙂

Hello…thank you for liking one of the posts on my blog at Faith1st Ministry. I hope it has encouraged you. Please continue check in on us from time to time and follow if you will. Thank you again and remember to have Faith 1st.

Thank you for following my blog at Faith1st Ministry. I hope it has and will continue to be a major blessing in your life. May God richly bless you as you continue to write and blog. Please continue with us on this journey and remember to have Faith 1st. — Sebastian

As you said in one of your posts, “trust your angels.” This is one of those rare evenings I had a moment to look at my work and saw you “LIKED” my post. I followed back and read several of your recent blogs. I so needed to read, chuckle and hear your words. You were indeed my angel today 😉 Thank you.

I can only express hope that your recovery keeps on – and on … Losing love is something we actually never get over: we just learn to live with the loss.
Oh! – have just realised you use the same theme as I do; so there’s something else we have in common.

Happy New Year to you. May 2013 bring more love, happiness, and success to you. 🙂
Thank you for keep following my blog, I hope my blog posts do not disappoint. My subscription went messed up, so now I am resubscribing. Take care and blessings to you..:-)

I love your blog (both of them). I hope you will accept a nomination for the One Lovely Blog Award! You can go to my blog for more info. It’s writersite and you add the .org afterwards. It’s today’s post “Gratitude x 7+.” I can’t link it here, I guess.

Hi there, I love your honest and heartfelt writing. I am trying to start a new feature on my blog where I ask women to share their inspiring stories about healing from break-up. If you would be interested in writing a piece please feel free to contact me http://breakupandshine.com/share-your-story/. I’d love to hear from you!

Hi Marissa
Thank you!
That is a great idea! I will think about it, as honestly, I don’t think I am healed yet and I don’t know if I will ever be. I have just been managing day to day gracefully!
Many blessings to you! 🙂

Thanks for liking my blog, too much time on my hands after a breakup led to a blog as well! I had some blogging questions for you actually – is there anyway via email or facebook to connect with you and ask some questions?

Hi GingerGirl
I wish it was a case of too much time on my hands, but my blog really was born out of desperation and a necessity to get thoughts and emotions out.
Feel free to contact me at blessedwithastar@hotmail.com. I hope those are not technical questions – lol
Many blessings! 🙂

Finding oneself single is challenging. I can relate. A year ago, when I was 61 1/2 I left my home in a blaze of anxiety and fear, escaping from abuse. In the past year, I have begun to gain strength. I understand. I do not get into my personal feelings on my blog, although I have wanted to so many times. I admire your courage. In writing, I believe, is healing.

Hi Mona. Thank you so much for your kind words. You are right writing is indeed healing; I credit this blog for helping heal my broken heart and saving my sanity.
I applaud your courage and strength of pursuing your given right: a life free from any kind of abuse! You are already strong but I am eager to see how much stronger you can get as your brand new life is just beginning! Many blessings to you! 🙂

So great you pointed that out. It is definitely a matter of how one look at things, so I try to focus on how blessed my life is now that I am free and can do whatever my heart desires! Thank you for the advice I will indeed embrace it all! Many blessings to you! 🙂

I too am single never-married no kids so I know what its about…, i’ve decided to fill my life with interesting hobbies and creativity, among other things…. (and don’t forget to count my fur-kid simba, lol!) 😉

Heyyyyy, an American-Brazilian, nice to meet you. Thanks for liking my post. I’m a Canadian, married to a Brazilian and living in Brazil. Don’t have dual citizenship though. My kids do.
Blessings =)
Staci

Hi:
Thanks for liking my three of my posts. Your story is inspiring and I wish you the best in future endeavors. I write because not only is it the only thing I’m any good at, others seem to enjoy it also. My blog is new as is the next chapter of my life. Being laid off has so far been the best thing that has ever happened to me; I spent 31 years hating my job and I hope the next 31 are the beginning of living. Hang in there !!

Hi Rob
Good luck with this new chapter. I am so glad that you realize the hidden blessing in being laid off – it offers you this huge chance of finding a different path and hopefully a job that you love!
I enjoy your blog so far and have to go back and read more!
Many blessings in your future! 🙂

Thank you for visiting my site this morning (my time). I’m bowled over by your positive attitudes on here. You seem an amazing person with much to offer this world. I can’t wait to have a little browse around your blog!

Thank you so much, Star, for discovering my blog and for the two likes you left there this morning. Having already lived quite a long time, I can assure you that life, even within an unbroken relationship, IS change. Sometimes the change is sudden and painful; sometimes it’s so gradual that it takes a while until you wake up and ask yourself, “What happened?” But I very much admire the energy and resilience with which you are confronting the hurts and difficulties in your life. Also, do keep on blogging; it helps a lot! I look forward to reading more posts! 😀

Hi Nina
Thank you so much for your wisdom! Blogging has kept my sanity at the time of the break up. I always say change is good and some times I need a reminder!
Thank you for the kind words and many blessings! 🙂

Thank you very much for visiting my blog and I have enjoyed dipping my toes into yours. It’s funny how when you meet somebody for the first time, either in real life or in these blogs, you pick up on those coincidences but I have a Brazilian friend and she is so proud of being Brazilian and I’ve caught the flame. She was so psyched up when Brazil was doing well in the World Cup. We found a Brazilian BBQ restaurant called Braza nearby and love it. Brazil always sounds so exotic to me. I’m looking forward to reading more. Best wishes,
Rowena

Hi Rowena
It is very nice to meet. I am happy that you joined the World Cup fever, and watching with a Brazilian is an awesome experience.
I hope you have a chance to visit Brazil someday and experience all we have to offer.
Many blessings! 🙂

Thank you for stopping by my blog, because I now have a chance to experience yours! Someone once said that a break up or divorce is like having a death in the family. That described my break up perfectly. But once you get over that hump, and after the first time you’re truly able to laugh again, like bent over crying from the gut laughter….It’s just like you said, you get to reinvent yourself, on your own terms and that is such a liberating feeling! Love&Light to you on your journey!

It is indeed like a death in the family. Some days I feel completely over, while others I think there are still some remnants ..Still I feel blessed that it happened!
Thank you for the much needed and much welcomed love and light! 🙂
Blessings! 🙂

Thank you for visiting my blog, which allowed me to find yours, and I had goosebumps reading what you have posted. It feels like someone has come out of me and expressed things that I could not express myself. I have just started blogging (again), and for similar reasons as yours, to inspire people and to help myself deal with what’s going on in my life right now. Once again, thank you an God bless. – T.

You are welcome! I thank you for the kind words and for inspiring me to continue writing. Blogging has helped me a lot and one of the best things is to meet people like you. Many blessings and don’t give up writing! 🙂

Hey beautiful lady, wondered???? how do I know you are beautiful????????……….. All those are beautiful, who are abstract thinkers…who have profound and unique thoughts and way of thinking, this is my belief!!!!!!!!!!!!……………………… Am grateful that I met you here…..and thankful for visiting my blog and following me :)………….

I think those are no longer in existence. But since you are very horrible indeed I will just pass that award along to you right now! All you have to do is post it on your page and continue to be your horrible self, which let’s face it, for you is a very easy proposition! 🙂 Blessings!

every person born is born with a purpose and Allah knows best the reason . you are an awesome beautiful worthy being. appreciate your blessings, talk to your self. there are countless who are not even as blessed as you are. we your blogger family love you ❤

Thank you! I am indeed blessed to know that I am imperfectly perfect and my life has meaning, like everyone else. But so many focus on the negative and the problems instead of being grateful for the infinite blessings we are given daily. Thank you and many blessings to you! 🙂

In my post for today I put a link to your blog. You were a messenger from on high for me today. Hope you read my post. I’ll email you for a closer relationship. We all need each other to survive not only our personal thought times but also to survive the most difficult times ever known in the history of mankind. Thanks again for being there for me.:-)

Awesome!Thank you so much! We are all here and cross paths with each other for a reason. It is my hope that I am able to see the signs and learn the lessons that others so graciously come into my life to teach me! Have a blessed weekend! 🙂

Hello, Transitions, Pathways, Passages, Change is the only constant. Thanks for liking my post. You mention “job loss” I joined wp when I was flushed out of the office by a Spanish loving Sicilian. Two years later, I end up in the same field; I see that field with a new set of glasses; redemption.
Your blog is lovely and I am thankful to have found you. One is a whole number btw. xo ~ wings

Thank you so much for visiting my blog! Quite a few years ago, I got back into writing after a massive heartbreak that had more to do with letting myself be fooled than with the fool who fooled me. Writing is good for what ails you – whatever it is. I hope life is much happier for you these days. Take care!

This blog has been a lifesaver for me. It saved me my sanity and it didn’t cost a dime 🙂 Life has been amazing. My Ex did me a favor, now I am able to see that and be grateful for it. I hope all is well with you too. Thank you and many blessings! 🙂

Indeed it is! What an awesome idea if we all could inspire each other to become the best we can, to do more, to love more, to take chances. Thank you Universe for conspiring to bring us inspiration! Blessings! 🙂

Hello there Star. Thank you for showing an interest in my blog. I’ve just read your post on attending the Ballet and your ambivalent attitude towards your current relationship. And I read your About Me section which was incredibly interesting. Brazilian American! I’m glad you’re blogging!

You’re quite honest and I believe you are one to truly “think” about your situation. You constantly see things from a distance. (things such as the man sitting across from you a.k.a. your date.) Your blunt honesty is a good thing because it is tempered with compassion, e.g. the man who sneezed. In short you appear to have the writer’s gift of observance and self-introspection.

Hi Paul, I am sorry it took so long to reply. I thank you for your comment. I love love love it! You seem to get all that I try to be and do. Please keep on reading. People like you inspire me to write honestly and fearlessly. I am the honored one here to have you as a reader!! Blessings! 🙂

Thank you. I’m in Japan right now. My wife, who is Japanese, and I are here visiting friends and family. It’s wonderful. I hope to post some pictures soon! Thanks again Star. It’s great to have you as a friend.

Nice to meet you. I am a little bit older than you and have reached that point in the road in my current relationship, where I know it is time to go. I am not getting any younger and I want to be free and happy.It sounds selfish, but you only get one chance at living, why be miserable. If it doesn’t fit or feel right , don’t try to make it, it wont work, at least it hasn’t for me. I don’t have anything to lose. The only thing that keeps me here is finances, but I am taking steps to move ahead.

Welcome aboard! I always appreciate the older and wiser! There are points in life that one has to be selfish to maintain their sanity and to feed their own soul. Thinking of others is good but it may get to the point when you have nothing to offer because you have depleted yourself for the sake of others. Each person is responsible for their own happiness. As they say on airplanes put your air mask first, only then you can help others. I am glad that you are taking steps to enable yourself to move on to a better situation. Sometimes it takes courage to say good bye, it is not giving up, it is realizing that it is not fixable. Best of luck to you! Blessings! 🙂

Thank you so much, your words are wise ones and very true. I have always had a problem with guilt and have over stayed, when I should have left much sooner.I always tried to make things work, even though I was not happy, I sacrificed years by being that way. It is hard to make that first move, especially when finances are involved.

I was lucky to have been in a good financial position at the time we broke up, but still I tried to hold on convince him to fix the relationship. How happy I am today that he never wanted to work on “us”. In hindsight perhaps I was not as happy as I thought I was.

It is such a joy to “meet” you…I’m not sure how you found my blog, but thank you for “liking” so many of my posts! I’ve read and commented on a number of yours, and I’m privileged to “follow” you…you have the type of heart that I am drawn to…you are optimistic and genuine, brave and willing to “put yourself out there”…and, you inspire others to be the best versions of themselves–warts and all. That kind of freedom makes the sky the limit, and gives each of us the daring, and room, to soar. You are a light…thanks for sharing 🙂

Go for it!!! See it this way…the fact that you are doing this is already a step forward. And, I know this is very cliche and probably not what you want to hear, but, I’m a firm believer that “Things happen for a reason”….even though the reason may not always be clear…
Happy Blogging!

Hi It has been years since I wrote that introduction, and by now I agree with you that “things happen for a reason” and I am much better off now. Time does heal everything and it makes us see things clearer. Thank you and blessings! 🙂

The right person is out there you’ll see. You just have to be ready for that moment when that friend finally crosses your path. In the meantime, I’d say writing is a great way to release your imagination in continuing to move forward with your life. ‘O)

I trust you have your feet under Neath you now. I started my blog in 2012 too. It’s a long time to write! So I don’t have to read all your posts, did you get married yet? And a have a Blonde Brazilian joke if you are game… Thanks for following my blog..

Well you are doing a much better job of finding things to write about. I was a much better writer or blogger 4-6 years ago. I don’t know you but old maid I don’t see. After reading your 4 Dates post you seem very professional and successful. And you must have high standards. And there is something to be said for successful and single.

It is funny how it happens…normally I have an idea of what to write and while I am in the middle of writing it life happens, an event or situation happens that causes me to to be sad, happy, whatever, it causes a feeling and emotion too strong to be locked up inside. I have to write about it and the original idea/post never gets finished.
I am happy to say that I am indeed professional and successful. I am not sure if I have high standards or it is just the fact that I am not willing to settle for less than what I think I deserve and what I am willing to give.
Thank you for reading and caring to comment! Many blessings! 🙂

Hi Debbie,
I love writing and the blogging community is so awesome, smart and accepting. There is no stopping me now.
I am so glad I have met you. I love the idea behind your blog! Forgiveness is so important and so many people ever use it as a tool for growth and wellness.
Thank you for sharing! Wishing you a blessed week! 🙂

Hi Caz
I will lookout for it.
While I am happy and feel special for being thought of, I don’t always have the time to participate.
So I am sorry in advance if I don’t but I will be happy to visit your log and the others nominated.
Thank you and blessings to you! ❤❤